Posted on 11/01/2015 6:58:46 AM PST by Navy Patriot
In responding to Russian thrusts in Ukraine and Syria, the West has relied on economic sanctions or conceded initiative to Moscow. Experience shows that direct measures-ones that target troublesome behavior-are more likely to be effective.
In Ukraine and Syria, the West seems less sure of its aims and less committed to achieving them. In contrast, Russia appears to have clearer goals, cares more about outcomes, lies closer to the contested theater and acts with dispatch.
This was also true when the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979. President Jimmy Carter responded by seeking to organize a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, but only some Western allies went along. Carter halted the export of U.S. grain to the USSR, but U.S. farmers were outraged and a year later President Reagan canceled the embargo.
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No, we need to leave well enough alone. He’s taking care of the business we didn’t have the guts to do.
NATO - Your globalist oligarch loan shark leg breakers at work.
How come when Russia has more neo-nazis than any other country in the world ?
Exactly!
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